Before you startIf you already have the first SQL Prompt 5 early access release installed, simply run the new installer to upgrade.

If you do not already have SQL Prompt 5 installed, please uninstall SQL Prompt 4 and SQL Refactor before trying the SQL Prompt 5 Early Access release.

How do I get the early access release?Subscribe to the SQL Prompt early access mailing list and we’ll provide you with the download details.

FeedbackSQL Prompt 5 is still in development, and we value any feedback you may have; please let us know if you have any comments or suggestions.If you find an error or bug with the early access release, please post a detailed description of the error here in the SQL Prompt 5 EAP forum.

What’s still to come?We’re working on the following new features for further early access releases:

Any news on a new release? The second EAP hangs my SSMS window on SQL 2008 R2 when I connect to a Server. With the first EAP having quit just now, I can't continue testing. I am not quite sure what to send or if there is anything to send at this time. Just know that this release doesn't work for me and I've seen some other posts here as well about problems with the second EAP.

I have finally given up on SQL Prompt 5 too... it was just cause too many issues with locking up the SSMS at random times. Today's was that I was browsing through my tables and went to right click... then nothing else worked and SSMS even disappear from the taskbar though it was actually still running when you alt-tab'd!

There are a few niggles with prompting getting in the way of typing - I think functions should rank over column names so typing object should give Object_id at top rather than expanding to objectid from a dmv ... and I still think that no aliases should be the same as snippet shortcuts. IE if I have a table called InternsJunior its alias should be InJ not IJ as IJ expands to Inner Join as soon as you tab on...